America's premier historical novelist returns with a Viking saga of blood, passion, and adventure Corban Loose-Strife and his twin sister Mav are two bodies with one soul between them. In the past it has brought them comfort, but the link becomes a nightmare one winter day when a Viking dragon ship bears down on Corban's home with fire and sword. The men are slain, the farmstead pillaged and burned, and the young women, including Mav, are taken as slaves. From the coast of Ireland to the occupied village of Dublin, across the Irish Sea to a Viking stronghold in Britain, then on to the Kingdom of the Danes, Corban tracks his ravaged sister, fighting for his own life and to earn the influence and money he will need to buy her freedom.